Details On How The Idea For The First Women’s Royal Rumble Came Together

The Royal Rumble match has been a tradition in WWE for decades now and back in 2018 WWE introduced the first ever women’s Royal Rumble match. The women’s Royal Rumble match has become a solid addition to WWE’s annual Royal Rumble event and during a recent episode of his Oh You Didn’t Know? podcast Road Dogg noted that the decision to move forward with match was a collaborative one.

“I don’t think it was one person. I thought it was a collaborative decision. And I really don’t know who the first person to ever think of it was, you know what I mean? You’d have to go back pretty far. But it was time and everybody knew it.”

Road Dogg went on to explain that once it was decided they would need 30 women for the match the company realized quickly that they were going to have to call in some favors.

“And it was like, ‘Well, what are you going to do? You’re going to do 30 women, and the immediate reaction to everybody is, ‘well, you’re only going to do 20 women, you do 30 men’. And it’s like, no, that’s, you’re missing the point. Like the point is equality, right? And every way.

So it’s like, ‘well how many [entrants] do they have? They have 30. How? We don’t have 30 [women]? Well, we’ll get 30, maybe we’ll call in some favours.’”

H/T Inside The Ropes